Preening is valid Scrabble Word

Is preening a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is preening valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for PREENING in dictionary:

VERB:

PREEN, to clean and arrange the feathers with the beak
(of a bird) tidy and clean its feathers with its beak
congratulate or pride oneself
(of a person) devote effort to making oneself look attractive and then admire one's appearance

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to smooth or clean with the beak or tongue

Words related to PREENING

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How to use PREENING in a sentence

The flock, that heretofore like a group of barnyard fowls in the dust and the sun had remained indolently resting and preening their plumage, grew alert.
She stopped her idle polishing and preening to study the glowing and lovely little face that looked up at her.
Wishing to look their best on the occasion they repaired to the banks of a stream, where they busied themselves in washing and preening their feathers.
Preening my feathers became a pleasant task once more.
He laughed with them, not realizing they were laughing at him, but ever preening himself on being a very witty and clever person indeed.
Beyond the adjoining garden a lady in mourning entered a gate where honeysuckle grew, and above, on the low-dormered roof, a white pigeon sat preening its feathers.
They ran each feather separately through their bills, preening and smoothing.
They pass their lives in a little round of household activities, sunning and preening themselves in their long hours of leisure like so many sleek cats.
She was only a beautiful peacock preening her feathers and sighing for homage.
They sat or walked in twos and threes, chattering and preening, as happy as young sparrows on a clothes line.

Some stood, preening themselves, some reposed with their long bellies pressed to the ground, as though the cool grass were water.
Sometimes, as in the Eighth Sonata, Scriabine is like a gorgeous tropical bird preening himself in the quivering river light.
Side by side, on a jutting crag that leaned far out over the brook, sat a splendid pair of golden eagles, joyously preening their plumage in the spring sunshine.
Mother Thrush was preening herself sleepily, feeling the grateful warmth of her eggs and listening to the wonderful song overhead, when the blow came.

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